Sh Tipu

“That's the trouble with stereotypes: they are not wholly disconnected from the truth.”
― Andy Miller, The Year of Reading Dangerously

“She's joking, of course, but as with all the best jokes, it contains more than a grain of truth”
― Bryony Gordon, Mad Girl

“After the war of course it will be like the start of spring, which is always so brilliantly sudden. The leaves will burst back onto the trees and close the gaps between the branches and we shall be startled - shan't we? - s we are startled at the end of every winter. We shall think: oh, I had quite forgotten there were three livable seasons.”
― Chris Cleave, Everyone Brave Is Forgiven

“You think too much of your "toilette", Adele; but you may have a flower." I took a rose from a vase and fastened it in her sash. She sighed a sign of ineffable satisfaction, as if her cup of happiness were now full. I turned my face away to conceal a smile I could not suppress; there was something ludicrous as well as painful in the little Parisienne's earnest and innate devotion to matters of dress.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre